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Heuristic Approaches to Spatial Analysis in Archaeology

Title
Heuristic Approaches to Spatial Analysis in Archaeology
Creator(s)
Kintigh, Keith W.
Ammerman, Albert J.
Date
1982
Is Part Of
American Antiquity
Volume
47
Issue
1
Pages
31-63
Language
eng
ISSN
0002-7316, 2325-5064
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2307/280052
Zotero BiDiAr
https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/6FEWM44J/item-list
Abstract
This article discusses an approach to spatial analysis which is more closely tailored to archaeological objectives and archaeological data than are more "traditional" quantitative techniques such as nearest neighbor analysis. Heuristic methods, methods which make use of the problem context and which are guided in part by intuitively derived "rules," are discussed in general and with reference to the problem of spatial analysis in archaeology. A preliminary implementation of such a method is described and applied to artificial settlement data and artifact distributions from the Magdalenian camp of Pincevent. Finally, the prospects for further development of heuristic methods are elaborated.

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